CABE Research Forum Digest

The first ever Research Forum held by CABE, in conjunction with Cardiff Metropolitan University, took place at the Embedding Sustainability Conference. The forum allowed us to highlight the impressive research that is currently being undertaken by Building Engineers working in practice and in educational institutions.

By giving researchers the opportunity to highlight the resilient ways in which individually, or as a community, we can embed sustainability and build resilience into projects they highlighted their ideas and suggestions that could lead to us combatting some of the biggest challenges facing the construction industry.

To disseminate the research further we have published a Research Forum Digest, sharing the poster presentations – highlighting the results of their findings, and the next steps for their research.

• Sustainabiliy and Social Housing: Insights from a Welsh Social Landlord by Adam West, Prof. John Littlewood, and Dr Katie Beverley, Coastal Housing Group, Swansea, and Cardiff Metropolitan University. The research team are investigating sustainability strategies to better understand how housing associations can implement, develop, and monitor their strategy to respond to the climate emergency; and
• Machine Learning-based Vulnerability Analysis of Historic Urban Landscapes by Rafael Ramirez Eudave and Tiago Miguel Ferreira, University of Minho. Their project is assessing the seismic vulnerability of buildings to contribute to the discussion around the suitability of established seismic vulnerability assessment approaches using photographic images of the 2017 Mexico earthquake. 
  

Sharing knowledge and information is core to the vision of the Association. Professor John Littlewood, Research Forum Chair, commented that “the research forum has given us the opportunity to showcase some of the extraordinary research that is taking place throughout the built environment, by publishing the presentations further we allow researchers to share their discoveries with professionals throughout the sector.

You can download the Research Forum Digest free of charge.

Research Forum Digest